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Egon Eiermann
When the German Embassy in Washington was completed in 1964, the architectural critic for the Washington Post wrote that the express aim of those commissioning the building had been to make an architectural statement that would embody the spirit of the young German democracy.
Egon Eiermann / Sep Ruf, German Pavilions, Brussels 1958
Text in English and German. The German Pavilions were the actual event at the 1958 Brussels World Fair, because what appeared as an oasis of modesty among the typical exhibition fairground of bizarre sensationalism was precisely what would not have been expected of economic miracle Germany: no showing off or pomposity, just architecture distinguished by its reticence and the refined simplicity of the architectural resources, and by the happy combination of men who created it, all so similar in the nature of their thinking: Egon Eiermann and Sep Ruf as architects, Walter Rossow as landscape and garden planner, and Hans Schwippert responsible for the exhibition programme. The building plot was...
Heinz Tesar, Christus Hoffnung der Welt, Wien
Heinz Tesar built this church as a spiritual centre, an oasis in the diaspora, for Donau City, a new residential and commercial centre of Vienna.
Felicja Blumental Music Centre and Library, Tel Aviv
The music centre, built in 1997 commemorating the pianist Felicja Blumenthal, serves as a cultural centre and houses Israel's largest classical-music library. The building facing Bialik Square (named after Haim Nachman Bialik, Israel's national poet) in the historic centre of Tel Aviv is the contemporary layer that has now been added to this unique district, which is a kind of micro document of the architectural history of the city from the 1920s to the 1950s. Here we find the first Tel Aviv municipal building constructed in the eclectic period of the 1920s and also buildings dating from the 1930s, when the International Style, brought from Germany by refugee architects, was the dernier cri....
Otto Ernst Schweizer, 1890-1965
An architect, philosopher, and teacher who had a crucial effect on modern architecture.
Protection of Historical Constructions
This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Protection of Historical Constructions (PROHITECH), held in Athens, Greece, on October 25-27, 2021. The conference topics encompass structural and earthquake engineering, intervention strategies, materials and technologies, digital documentation, architecture and urban planning, cultural heritage, all of which represented by a showcase of case studies covering different construction materials, as well as sustainability, energy efficiency, and adaptation to climate changes. As such the book represents an invaluable, up-to-the-minute tool, providing an essential overview of protection of historical constructions, and offers an important platform to researchers, engineers and architects.
History of Architectural Theory
As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.
The Stadium
The Stadium is an unprecedented and comprehensive look at the intersections between architecture, urban design, sports and sports culture -- from histories of the changing social function and character of sport, to the changing field of stadium architecture. A special feature is a series of 'city chapters' examining how individual cities deal with their sports complexes and how they use them as a springboard for urban redevelopment. The Stadium also treats a number of topical themes such as the influence of sports-fan 'hooliganism' on the design of a stadium and its surroundings, developments in areas of comfort, infrastructure, and commerce, advances on the technical front, and the working ...
Picturing the Workers' Olympics and the Spartakiads
This volume focuses on the modernist and avant-garde engagement with workers’ sport events that were organised or were planned to be organised in the cities of Central Europe and the USSR in the period of 1920–1932: Frankfurt am Main – Vienna – Moscow – Prague – Budapest – Berlin. During the 1920s and 1930s, two organisations of workers’ sport operated: the Lucerne Sport International/Socialist Workers’ Sport International and the Red Sport International, which held the socialist Workers’ Olympics and the communist Spartakiads, respectively. These events were not aimed at cultivating national victories and individual athletic records, but at mobilising workers for the cla...
